Happy Monday. Let’s read some links.
- The suddenly very newsworthy Milwaukee Bucks have reportedly offered a 2015 second round draft pick to the Brooklyn Nets in exchange for current Nets coach Jason Kidd. Kidd would then be hired as head coach of the Bucks, who already have Larry Drew under contract as a head coach. Yup, it’s all pretty strange.
- Apparently, you don’t need to wait 30 minutes after eating to go swimming. Vox explains why swimming after eating is “totally fine.”
- Transformers: Age of Extinction had the biggest opening weekend of 2014, earning $100 million in the U.S. and more than $300 million worldwide. The Michael Bay blockbuster has a 17 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
- Tax collections in Wisconsin are falling short of projections. Income tax, the state’s largest source of revenue, has declined 4.6 percent from last year, while collections for sales taxes, corporate taxes and excise taxes are all up.
- The Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa is now the deadliest on record and is getting worse. The deadly disease has killed more than 360 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
